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What happened in the hours before, during and after a catastrophic deluge hit Texas Hill Country
For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country last week came too late. Many were asleep. Others, in a ...
Memorial in flood-ravaged Texas city becomes focal point of community's grief
A stretch of chain-link fence along the Guadalupe River in the Texas town of Kerrville has become a focal point for the community's grief. As survivors in hard-hit Kerr County begin to bury ...
Camp Mystic's Owner Warned Of Floods. He Died Trying To Save The Kids He Loved.
Dick Eastland was swept away by the deadly current as he and his son went from cabin to cabin to get campers to higher ground ...
Most of Camp Mystic's youngest campers lost in Texas floods - CNN
A group of Camp Mystic’s youngest campers are either all dead or missing after floods in central Texas killed around 120 people and left 160 missing.Bubble Inn, the cabin that hosted girls aged from 8 ...
Camp Mystic Owners’ Legacy: ‘If You’re a Camper, You Know Who They Are’
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
Camp Mystic’s owner warned of floods for decades. Then the river killed him
The Guadalupe River flood claimed 27 lives at Camp Mystic, including local hero Dick Eastland, who died rescuing campers ...
Flash flooding claimed more than 100 lives in Central Texas. Here’s what we know about the victims
The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, ...
Hero Camp Mystic director who died trying to save girls from floods fought for years for better warning systems
Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.